When Mills College announced its imminent closure in March 2021 due to long-time financial struggles exacerbated by the pandemic, “Save Mills College” rallies spread across the Bay Area campus as students and alumni organized to recover the historic women’s college. A few...
On July 1, Mills College is scheduled to end its 170-year run as a women’s college following its merger with Northeastern University. Since formal discussions about the merger began June 17, 2021, current students and alumni of the Oakland-based university have raised concerns...
Multiple Northeastern students have voiced complaints against a detective in the Boston Police Department, or BPD, alleging misconduct when breaking up student gatherings on Mission Hill.
The allegations, according to a complaint filed March 7 by fourth-year civil engineering...
At Friday’s commencement, thousands of Northeastern graduates heard from a selection of guest speakers during the two-hour undergraduate ceremony before officially receiving their diplomas from President Joseph E. Aoun.
Early on the morning of May 13, about 3,700 graduate...
Fenway Park will host thousands of students at the commencement ceremony May 13, as well as two notable speakers. Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Fortune 500 company Chobani Yogurt will be delivering the commencement speech for undergraduate students and Northeastern alumna...
Northeastern students and dining hall workers have recently reformed the HOWL coalition to advocate for a new contract that provides better working conditions and benefits for the dining staff. As the staff and their union begin working towards this new contract, which will be...
Resilience and rebuilding were strong motifs at this year’s annual TEDxNortheasternU conference April 30, marking the first in-person meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers from the Northeastern community and beyond shared their personal take on the central...
Students from over 60 student organizations joined with Huskies Organizing with Labor and Northeastern food service workers April 16 in Centennial Common to advocate for a better contract for the workers. Huskies Organizing with Labor, or HOWL, organized the rally in conjunction...
Mental health is a recurring subject of dialogue at Northeastern, and students recently had the opportunity to share their concerns directly with the university through a new survey, created by the student organization Active Minds.
Though the white tents placed around campus...
For the class of 2026, Northeastern was more selective than ever.
Of the record-large pool of 90,989 applicants, only 6,179 were admitted, or about 6.7%, Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi wrote in an email statement to The News April 12.
“You've got more people...
Monday evening, MBTA Transit Police, or TPD, responded to a report of shots fired at the Ruggles Station lower busway after a radio call at 6:19 p.m., according to a news release. Northeastern University Police Department, or NUPD, was also on the scene at approximately 6:25...
In speeches to the Student Government Association, or SGA, at an April 4 full body senate meeting, leadership addressed the tumultuous election cycle for the Spring 2022 election.
The election, which was contested for the first time in four years, saw election violation hearings,...
